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<td class="v">9:1</td>
<td>Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:</td>
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<td class="v">9:2</td>
<td>She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.</td>
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<td class="v">9:3</td>
<td>She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,</td>
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<td class="v">9:4</td>
<td>Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,</td>
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<td class="v">9:5</td>
<td>Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.</td>
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<td class="v">9:6</td>
<td>Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.</td>
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<td class="v">9:7</td>
<td>He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.</td>
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<td class="v">9:8</td>
<td>Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.</td>
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<td class="v">9:9</td>
<td>Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.</td>
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<td class="v">9:10</td>
<td>The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.</td>
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<td class="v">9:11</td>
<td>For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.</td>
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<td class="v">9:12</td>
<td>If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.</td>
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<td class="v">9:13</td>
<td>A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.</td>
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<td class="v">9:14</td>
<td>For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,</td>
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<td class="v">9:15</td>
<td>To call passengers who go right on their ways:</td>
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<td class="v">9:16</td>
<td>Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,</td>
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<td class="v">9:17</td>
<td>Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.</td>
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<td class="v">9:18</td>
<td>But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.</td>
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